Jon will go missing in the film.
I say this cause except in the final bit, we never see him in the scenes with Vic which makes me believe that Jon will go missing. This could also explain why Garfield and Odie are on a train with Street cat: to find Jon! And the synopsis does say it involves a hilarious yet high stakes heist, so it would match up!- Alternatively, Garfield will go missing, with the events of the heist separating him from Jon, but because Garfield is doing This Is My Human, he'll treat Jon like the "lost pet" in the situation.
Possible Creator Cameos
- Jim Davis, naturally, being the creator of the strip.
- Frank Welker, Garfield's current voice actor.
- Bill Murray, who voiced Garfield in the live-action films.
- Thom Huge, the original voice of Jon.
- Gregg Berger, Odie's voice actor in other media since his first animated appearence.
There will be a reference to U.S. Acres
- The bull that helps Garfield at the end of the second trailer could be resident of U.S. Acres (see below theory).
Odie will speak at some point during the movie.
They went to the trouble of casting Harvey Guillén to voice him, so he'll likely speak in an Imagine Spot or some other one-off gag, like what occasionally happens in the comic.- Alternatively, he'll also voice another, more talkative character.
The movie will also show how Jon adopted Odie.
Though given Garfield is narrating the film, it will be treated as significantly less important than his own story and brushed off as a Cutaway Gag. Predictably, it will ignore Lyman's existence.- Perhaps they'll make a Mythology Gag acknowledging Lyman being Put on a Bus, like vaguely alluding to an "annoying roommate" Jon used to have who brought Odie into the house and how he hasn't left since.
- Alternately, they'll have Jon get a call from Lyman, whom he'll describe as his college frat brother, asking Jon to take care of Odie while said frat brother is out of the country for an indeterminate amount of time.
Vic calling Garfield "Junior" isn't just a nickname — he actually was a junior before Jon named him "Garfield"
It seems a prominent theme in the movie will be contrast between how good of a cat-dad Jon is to Garfield versus how lousy of a biological dad Vic is, so it would make both logical and thematic sense if he had a name his parent(s) gave him that he doesn't remember and/or doesn't acknowledge in favor of his adoptive one.Vic kicking Garfield off the train
In the lead-up to the sequence where Garfield is flung around the forest after being kicked off the train by Vic, Garfield does the standard gag of kicking Odie off of something — most likely a stack of hay. Vic would see this and decide to give Garfield a taste of his own medicine, which would also explain why he says "You think he would've seen that coming" to Odie.Vic is the Big Bad
- For a message of Found Family in a scenario unlike one Chris Pratt had starred in before.
- Jossed: A deranged female cat is the Big Bad.
Nermal will be the Big Bad
- Trailers have shown a massively furry gray cat as the villain. Either this will be a different take on the character or Nermal's original design will be under all that fur.
In a twist to the above theory, that fat female cat is actually Nermal's mother.
Which could explain why Nermal acts like a jerkass towards Garfield and Odie - Vic kickstarted the feud between their families by messing with his mother, and now Nermal is continuing it by making Garfield's life miserable. The female cat is owner of food factory.
In one scene of the second trailer, you can see that she's controlling drones carrying pizza boxes and end of the trailer (barring the scene after movie's title) is set in food factory where she orders Garfield to be thrown into pit, which could mean that said factory belongs to her and Vic messed with her by breaking into it to steal food (given that first trailer showed that he's Big Eater just like his son Garfield). The purple bull that helps Garfield at the end of the second trailer is resident of U.S. Acres.
Given that original comic and cartoon didn't had a bovine character as member of the main cast, it could be possible that this bull is Canon Foreigner created solely for the movie. The reason why Orson, Wade, Roy and the rest of farm crew aren't with him helping Garfield get to the train is because they didn't get along with Garfield after he landed in their farm (referencing their rivalry during Garfield And Friends theme song).- If the movie ends up being the success, the bull will become Canon Immigrant as new member of the U.S. Acres main cast, similar to how Lola Bunny becomed new member of the main Looney Tunes cast after premiere of Space Jam.
The psychotic small dog will be Odie's Evil Counterpart.
Both of them are small dogs, but whereas Odie is Kindhearted Simpleton, this dog will be Ax-Crazy psycho. Also, while Odie is a Heroic Mime this pooch is capable of speaking. Vic will eventually have a Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You moment.
Vic's wife and the rest of her family came under attack by the Claws, a rival group of mousers, who were trying to force the family out of their area so the Claws could take it over. Vic was told to take their newborn son (the future Garfield) and get him somewhere safe, and he did, but then left the kitten in a crate across from the Italian restaurant and went back to try and help the family. By the time matters were settled and he got back to the crate, Garfield had met and been adopted by Jon, but Vic never realized this and has been on his own ever since, either exiling himself from the family for his failure or being kicked out by his father-in-law for losing his son. He eventually admits the truth to Garfield, who forgives him.